Re: error when installing io package

[John W. Eaton]

On 01/15/2015 08:49 AM, JohnD wrote:
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> > From: JohnD [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 9:33 AM
> > To: address@hidden; address@hidden; 'Philip Nienhuis'
> > Subject: RE: error when installing io package
> >
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> > > Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 12:22:10 -0600
> > > From: "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden>
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> > > Subject: error when installing io package
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> > > I noticed an error from movefile when installing the io package on
> > > windows saying that there were no files to move.  Can anyone else
> > > confirm this
> > problem,
> > > or is it just me?  All I did was
> > >
> > >     pkg install -noauto -verbose io-2.2.6.tar.gz
> > >
> > > and the installation fails with the movefile "no files to move" error.
> > >
> > > Should this problem be fixed in pkg by avoiding the call to movefile
> > > if
> > there are
> > > no files to move, or should movefile simply issue a warning if there
> > > are
> > no files
> > > to move and return success?
> > >
> > > jwe
> >
> > I see it on my 4.1.0+
> >
> > > > pkg install -forge -noauto -verbose io
> > mkdir (C:\Users\JDONOG~1.ECE\AppData\Local\Temp\oct-lSqsGj)
> > untar (C:\Octave\Octave-4.1.0+\src\io-2.2.6.tar.gz,
> > C:\Users\JDONOG~1.ECE\AppData\Local\Temp\oct-lSqsGj)
> > movefile: no files to move
> > error: called from 'movefile' in file
> > C:\Octave\Octave-4.1.0+\share\octave\4.1.0+\m\miscellaneous\movefile.m
> > near line 92,  column 5
> > > >
>
> It doesn't do it in 3.8.2

Any idea what changed?  Is it the assumption of what directory the
PKG_??? file will be installed in?  The post_install script uses

  files = cstrcat (desc.archprefix, filesep, octave_config_info 
("canonical_host_type"),
                  "-", octave_config_info ("api_version"), filesep, 
"PKG_???");

Is that no longer the valid location of the PKG_??? files?  If we just
want a quick fix for this problem with 4.1.0+, is there a better way
to specify the location of these files?

It also seems to me that using fullfile would be better than 
concatenating with filesep, but that's a separate issue.

jwe